Have you always had the dream to start your own business but didn’t know where to begin? This workshop will help aspiring entrepreneurs begin the process of owning a successful business, including evaluating business ideas, developing a business plan, and exploring financing options.
Learn from a business consultant about:
· lifestyle requirements for business owners
· how to assess the feasibility of your business idea
· legal and tax implications of owning a business
· how to develop a business plan
· how to compile a bank-ready financial package
· how to market your product or service
· health and safety regulations that may apply to your business
· where to find other resources that may help you succeed
Who Should Attend? Entrepreneurs/people considering starting a business and existing business owners who want to check up on their operations.
Cost: $20; Veterans are admitted free of charge with valid identification.

The 2018 Central PA Theatre and Dance Festival, presented by Tempest Productions on the weekend of June 22-24, will host a Pre-Launch Party on April 3rd from 5 - 7pm at The State Theatre, State College, PA. At this party, the festival founders will announce the Festival’s inaugural year's event with over 25 scheduled performances, as well as introduce the 20 founding member arts companies, and begin sales of the Backstage Passes for the Festival.
Come and meet the founders of this new festival on Tuesday, April 3 between 5-7pm and visit with representatives of the 20 companies performing and producing at this year's inaugural festival. The Central PA Theatre & Dance Festival is a new 3-day festival organized by Tempest Productions, happening June 22-24, 2018 at the following locations throughout downtown State College: The State Theatre (main stage and Attic spaces), Woskob Family Gallery/The Downtown Theatre, State College Municipal Building, Sidney Friedman Park, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza, Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Schwab Auditorium, and more.
The festival features over 20 companies performing and producing, as well as workshops, readings, social events, a play writing competition, and more. The festival is made possible in part by funding from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and a marketing grant from the Center County Convention and Visitor’s Bureau. Up-to-date information on the festival, participating companies, sponsors and tentative schedule is available at www.centralpatheatre.com.
But if you want to be in on the reveal, attend the pre-lauch party and get more information directly from the founders and representatives from the 20 founding arts companies! Learn how you can attend many of the events at the festival for free with the purchases of your Backstage Pass and find out how to volunteer to help with this year's festival!
This party is free to attend! The State Theatre's concessions will be open for sales and we'll provide other refreshments.

Schwab Auditorium, April 6, 2018 at 7:30 pm
Tickets available at cpa.psu.edu or 814-863-0255
In the 1990s, as children, three of them met at a summer music camp in the Danish countryside. The youngest students in attendance, they soon became friends and continued to get together to play music in the years that followed. Two decades later, these Scandinavian string players — three Danes and a Norwegian who joined the mix in 2008 — constitute “one of the best quartets before the public today” (Washington Post).
In its Penn State debut, the Danish String Quartet — violinists Frederik Øland and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violist Asbjørn Nørgaard, and cellist Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin — will perform Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 1; Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 7, Op. 59, No. 1; and a selection of Nordic folk tunes from the ensemble’s albums Wood Works (2014) and Last Leaf (2017).
“In the talented hands of the Danish String Quartet these ‘Wood Works’ — traditional Nordic folksongs and dances — are buffed and polished to a glossy concert-hall sheen,” writes a Gramophone reviewer.
Winner of the London (now Wigmore Hall) International String Quartet Competition in 2009, the ensemble has earned a reputation for its integrated sound, impeccable intonation, judicious balance, and “rampaging energy” (The New Yorker).
The quartet’s ECM Records debut, Adès/Nørgård/Abrahamsen (2016), earned a five-star rating from a reviewer for The Guardian, who praises the album as “an exacting program requiring grace, grit, and clarity.”
“Do not lose track of this group,” writes a Boston Globe critic. “Even by today’s high standards, it offers something very special.”
Artistic Viewpoints will not be offered before this performance.

Pennsylvania Military Museum - “KIDS DAY: Dress Up and Discover!!” - Kids of all ages get to try on the field gear and head gear from the museum education collection. Visit education stations in the galleries for more fun discoveries throughout the day. Regular Admission Rates Apply; 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.